Val is your gal! Your go-to gal to go buy your lottery ticket! Every ticket's a winner! Well. Not really. But I have more than my share of good ones. Like the one I bought out of Country Mart's right-side machine on Wednesday:
That's a $100 WINNER on a $3 TICKET! Can't get much better than that! Well. It could. If I won the grand prize. But I'm fine with $100. I found 8 words. Can YOU find them, after I've already scratched them off? This is the most confusing ticket of them all. Good thing I scan them. I knew this was a winner right away, but when I went back to look at those words again, they were hard to see. Sometimes I miss a winner when I only find 3 words. It always gives you 2 words, which is a loser.
Anyhoo... here they are, in case you don't have a lot of time to waste and look for them:
ESCAPE
SNEEZE
BASS
BAY
OZONE
SIR
PIANO
PRESSURE
Yes, I picked that ticket out of a machine. Slid my money in the slot, and poked the screen. Unlike the clerk at the Sis-Town Casey's on Thursday, who could not even give me the correct ticket that I requested. They have them in a case, numbered. So when I ask for a number, they look at their dispenser behind the counter, and tear off the kind of ticket in that number slot. I think this Casey's has about 25 selections.
Anyhoo... mistakes can happen. When the clerks lay them on the counter, I see the colors and patterns and recognize the tickets I've asked for. If it's a wrong ticket, I point that out and they give me the right one. THIS clerk laid them face down on the counter! Of course I trusted that she had the right tickets. She literally has ONE JOB. Okay. Maybe 10 or 20 jobs. But it's not rocket science. I didn't ask her to flip them over. I was busy punching in Hick's number to get free stuff on his rewards account. It doesn't work for lottery purchases, but I was also buying gas.
What I wanted was a big crossword ticket. What I got something else.
It doesn't even look like a crossword ticket! I would have spotted it right away, even though distracted by punching in the number for Hick's rewards, had the tickets been laying face up.
I don't like this Wheel of Fortune ticket. I only bought them the first week they came out. It's not orderly enough for me! I like to see the numbers in straight rows, and scratch them in an orderly manner. When you pick up a Wheel of Fortune, you have no idea where those numbers are lurking! Once you find one, and you've played this ticket before, you can kind of figure it out. Anyhoo... this error-given Wheel of Fortune was a loser.
So let this be a lesson to you! Don't trust a clerk to hand you the WINNING scratcher!
Heh, heh! If that mistaken ticket had been a big winner, or EVEN a winner, Val would be singing a different tune!
So IS does not count?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I wanted to know, when I first started playing them! I'd have a perfectly good word, but it was only a section of the word they meant for you to scratch off.
Delete"A WORD must contain every single letter square in a string between colored spaces." That's in the rules on the back. You need bifocals and a magnifying glass to read them.
She didn't lay them face up, so why didn't you turn them over to check? I would have.
ReplyDeleteI spotted those eight words, but for a second thought you also had 'underpass' and 'syndrome'.
Heh, heh! Every time I glanced at the ticket, I thought that word was UNDERPANTS! I guess I was looking through 13-year-old eyes.
DeleteThree reasons for not turning over the tickets. She had them at her edge of the counter, not shoved to the middle or my side for me to take. So it might have seemed as if I was trying to grab them and run off without paying. AS IF I could run!
Also, there's a VIRUS shield of clear plastic hanging down, so I'd have had my face pressed against it for my arms to reach under.
AND, I was typing in my phone number that is linked to Hick's reward points, so my gas purchase would count towards his total. I'm not a good multi-tasker these days.
You are the luckiest. You just helped me make up my mind. I can go to the QT to pick up one of those $3 crossword triplers or to the casino to lose a bundle. I think I'm heading to QT. Keep winning.
ReplyDeleteI DO have a bit of luck. My grandma (Mom's mom) was a bingo champion!
DeleteThose bingo tickets are such fun to play. I always THINK I'm going to have a winner, but the odds are somewhere around 1 in 3.5. Not sure, I don't have one beside me for reference. They tell the odds on the back.
A whole passel of those $3 tickets could take as much time as a casino visit, and probably be cheaper and yield more winnings!